ch. xviii 4 T 5 



CHAPTER XVIII 



THE MEN: THEIR DUTIES AND DRESS 



On a private coach there should be two servants : 

 a first and second groom, or coachman and groom. 

 The head man sits on the off side in the rumble, the 

 other man on the near side. When the owner is not 

 driving, as, for instance, when the coachman brings 

 the coach from the stable to the door, the second 

 man keeps his place in the rumble on the near side. 

 After coming to the door, the second man goes 

 immediately to the heads of the leaders and stands 

 in front of them facing the coach, taking hold of their 

 heads if necessary, and straightening them forward ; 

 the leaders, on stopping, are very apt to hang back 

 and to be too near the end of the pole. Their 

 traces should be nearly tight, and while they stand, 

 the man at their heads should see that they are al- 

 ways in their proper places. The coachman quietly 

 puts on the brake, gets down immediately, with the 

 reins and whip in his right hand, draws the reins 

 through the point-strap above the tug-buckle (in 

 the manner shown in Fig. 168), lays the whip across 

 the backs of the wheelers, and then stands at the 

 wheelers' heads on the off side. 



Should there be only men going on the coach, 

 and the ladder is not required, the man who is at 



